Tag: PEN America

12 Jun 2018

Our colleagues at PEN America (United States) have recently created a list of literary grants & fellowships for which they are currently accepting applications. This cycle PEN America is offering grants for translated international literature, English translation of Italian literature,...

23 Jan 2018

PEN South Africa notes with gladness that Cameroonian writer and Stony Brook college professor Patrice Nganang has been freed from detention in Cameroon. As Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN America wrote in a press release earlier this week: He was...

12 Dec 2017

PEN South Africa is gravely concerned by the abduction and detention on December 6th 2017 of Patrice Nganang, a Cameroonian-American writer, poet, and professor. Nganang, a Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative literature at Stony Brook University in New York...

12 Jun 2017

Deadline: 15 August 2017 PEN America is currently accepting submissions for the 2018 PEN Literary Awards. The following awards don’t require US citizenship or residency, although the majority of them do require that the work being submitted has been published...

04 May 2017

PEN SA Centre Co-ordinator Myolisi Sikupela visited the PEN America centre in New York in April 2017: There are three ways to get to New York from Washington D.C., a flight, bus or train. The train option is far more...

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PEN South Africa, founded in 1927, is one of more than 140 Centres of PEN International, which currently operate in over 100 countries. A worldwide, politically non-aligned organisation of writers, PEN International is dedicated to promoting freedom of expression, and encouraging the growth and strengthening of literature. Its foundational text is the PEN Charter, which all Centres and members of PEN must uphold.